World-famous Armenian piano prodigy Tigran Hamasyan, an artists hailed as phenomenal, sublime, and brilliant, is coming to Šiška to perform the music version of his most ambitious project to date, The Bird of a Thousand Voices.
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Tigran Hamasyan is a celebrated Armenian pianist and composer known for blending jazz improvisation, progressive rock, and Armenian folk music into a unique sound. A child prodigy, he began playing piano at three and gained international recognition by his teens, winning the Montreux Jazz Festival and Thelonious Monk competitions, later releasing acclaimed albums on labels like Nonesuch, ECM, and Universal France, as well as picking up numerous awards. The Guardian declared him a phenomenal piano player, Downbeat praised his touch as sublime, and Jools Holland extolled his virtues as a brilliant musician, to list just a fraction of the high praise he’s received during his career.
In 2024, Hamasyan released The Bird of a Thousand Voices, a conceptual double album inspired by Armenian mythology, which also premiered as an immersive transmedia music theatre piece at the Holland Festival. At the heart of the story is Hazaran Havq, a mythical bird whose thousand songs bring harmony to a broken world – a tale passed down for generations in Armenia and symbolic of rebirth and awakening. Hamasyan composed his most ambitious work to date for this project, a 24-part electro-acoustic suite that invites the audience on a mythical path of trials toward rediscovery, with childlike imagination and artistic innovation used to reflect on contemporary struggles.
With global recognition and praise from jazz legends like Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea – the former even proclaimed him to be the teacher now – Hamasyan continues to captivate audiences with his genre-defying artistry. We can’t wait to host the music version of The Bird of a Thousand Voices in Ljubljana this November.
Tickets on sale online and at Eventim outlets.
Organisation: Kino Šiška.
